Mixed feelings about Il Clay (#01-04 Clarke Quay, 3D River Valley Road). Food's pretty good but portion can be pretty small. Service was spotty. While the restaurant was generally polite and obliging, one of them attempted to pull wool over us by not checking on an order we were inquiring and giving us a reply without ever consulting with his colleagues that were processing it. He shambled one round around the bar and came back with an answer provided by a voice in his head. He thought we did not notice.
That was a deliberate lie by the wait staff of Il Clay. Not to mention that said staff has a reaction speed of someone high on something. Didn't think it was worth the effort to pursue. I didn't think the restaurant cared much since they hired him in the first place.
Smoked eel and scallops were delicious. Love the olives. Dill looked more like decoration rather than an actual flavouring ingredient. Portion was small.
This burnt cabbage thing was delicious. Steaming hot delicious that involved a nicely done pairing of that chilli jam and whipped feta cream. The menu mentioned truffle oil, ham and something call pistachio crush - I didn't know where were all those things. Bad - very bad form for a restaurant to claim, charge for it and not provide.
Waited pretty long for our pasta. The restaurant looked like it had a lot of people working and wasn't filled up entirely. For some reasons, there was simply a lot of waiting and it wasn't exactly easy to get the attention of the staff.
The oyster reginette (or also known as mafaldine) was outstanding. The sauce was creamy, sour, spicy and garlicky with spikes of heat from.... chilli padi I suppose. Oysters were delicious.
I thought well in general of their duck confit cannelloni. Looked long and slender like a stalk of asparagus that's filled with the minced confit. Love the Gorgonzola sauce where the flavours from the spots of squid ink surprisingly came through. What I also thought was that double of this "primi piatti" portion of cannelloni should have been more reasonable for what they were charging.
Pizzas looked intriguing but I don't think I'm prepared to pay their prices. Don't think we will be back in any case since we weren't getting much of the positive vibes. There are surely other better places to spend money on food.
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